>>124629221The strangest thing is that King at SDCC right before the release did a panel that gave so much backstory and lore behind how Sanctuary actually works that never made it into the book.
It feels so clear while reading that he actually had stuff thought out but had to abstract the concept to futility when Didio upped the kill count from 1 person to Everyone.
There’s so many people in the first splash page reveal, and it’s kept vague until the actual reveal who actually died. And then all the clues are kept abstracted to “Harley/Booster did it”.
There’s so much fascinating failure within HiC’s build up, like how characters in the lead up to the event we’re going to be drawn with Sanctuary pins to imply they’ve been through the process, and how physical pins were gonna be a preorder bonus.
Which was then reduced to a Sanctuary mention in Red Hood, Green Arrow, and Deathstroke, with the former 2 being Roy just heading off to die.
I can only presume they realized that advocating the location of a mass shooting metaphor that is written to not work for the majority of the book was a bad look.